ALLENBY, Edmund (Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936) – Service on Mount Carmel in Memory of Field Marshall [sic] Viscount Allenby … May 24th, 1936. [N.p., but probably Jerusalem: 1936].

Extremely rare ephemeral piece celebrating the life of Allenby, British imperial conqueror of Jerusalem.

Bifolium (236 x 108 mm.). Text in English. (Central horizontal creasefold, some light marginal creasing and staining.)

Allenby died on 14 May 1936, and this service to celebrate his life, held in Palestine, reflects a particularly Anglican attitude to British imperialism. Allenby had been responsible for the defeat of the Ottoman forces in Palestine in the autumn of 1917, entering Jerusalem on foot on 11 December of that year. The result of this military victory was to set in motion a series of political and social events that were to the lead to the creation of the Middle East in the form in which it can found today. NO OTHER COPIES CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONS.

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